greetings earthlings. we are still IN-dia. we are staying with a very precious family. they have a little baby boy named chew-dock. and a smiley cute grandma, the main character is sharab. he is full of life, dancing all the time, and singing “its chill time its chill time. ” choden is his wife and is so sweet and some what shy. sharab is allways there to break the silence with song and laughter. he is funny. they cook us amazingly healthy, nourishing, and tasty as @$#% meals. for example in the early bright morning we have coffee, tea, one hard boiled egg each, bread with PEANUT BUTTER! ( or homemade butter), butter biscuits, and then dinner is a variety of potatoes, chapaties, rice, dall, sometimes the delicasy of meat, veggies fresh from their one-foot-out-the-door garden.
TODAY! sharab put together a soccor match (fully lagit.) we had the full uniforms of neon orange jerseys with ballin white shorts and a big smile! we played against journalist who were good sports at the of 35. put up a good fight. had quite the local extravagent (cute kids) audience. it rained a bit. anyways to get to the point WEEE WOOONNN! at the end of the game we jammed out to some banging beats.( on the field mind you) and the people gave us each a gift of a velvet diety on a scroll.
last week we spent 4 days volunteering in a small village in the mountains, one hour drive and a 30 minute hike to a stream, where we repaired/built (i.e. hauling huge rocks and forming frustrating walls) channels to divert water (pani) towards the micro-hydro-electric building about the size of a truck. which goes to powering about 2 lightbulbs in each house in the village. we got the opportunity to stay a night in the village so we split up half the group and ate uuber spicey food. they were very nice to us and it was fun to get to know them and the way they live. BK had some real good times, good laughs playing soccer and trying to communicate on a very low level with local kids/teens. back up back up. first of all the ambassador SNOOP-A-LOOP, our driver to and fro volunteering location is just amazing. he has become one of us and helps out. we have a good time with him.
yesterday, we had an amazing day. we went to a well renound bontonist here in sikkim about 5 minutes from our friendly home. (accompanied by snoop, whos real name is sa-tim, but looks like the hindu version of snoop dog. connect the dots.) he showed us around his legendary, glorious, just drop dead spectacular plantation of flowers, citrusy fruits, plants, and smells. we had a awesome lunch with icecream and mandarien heavenly oranges. it was good. as you hopefully know yesterday was the spring equinox, so willa rose, chrys, and nina put together a lovely ritual with a candle in the middle of the circular group (on the roof) and lots of reflective (good) silence.
